Morjes!

Welcome to my blog. I write about fitting in, sticking out, and missing the motherland as a serial foreigner.

January 18th, outsourced

More words with no English equivalent, yay!!! I literally did a pelinti a few minutes ago in the kitchen as I was eating lunch. [HT Scotty]

The role of Syrian women in the war.

I thoroughly enjoyed this Les Miserables wedding flash "mob." Well done. [HT Jessie]

I would totally watch Knife Guys at 11.30 on Wednesdays. [HT Liz]

As Vulture put it, re: Edith With Googly Eyes, sometimes there is no "why." [HT Jen]

You kids these days with your video games. Here's what life used to be like. [HT Andrew]

If you listen to This American Life, you already know about/will "get" this clip of Fred Armisen impersonating Ira Glass. If you don't, meh, watch it anyway and maybe it will be funny to you.

Was Manti Te'o the victim or the mastermind of his dead girlfriend hoax?

In addition to dead girlfriend, above, here are six other famous people who never existed.

In pressing Google StreetView issues: did the Google car run over this donkey?

A guy outsources his own job to China. Hilarious/devious/sad. [HT David]

There's a reason Gotye didn't call it "Someone That I Used to Know"

Whiteboard messages from students